i can't remember the exact ship count, but one time my brother and i were playing and we decided it was late (like 100000 days in) and we were sick of playing it for so long, so we picked arebel rim world, and picked a day like 800-1500 days later and said, okay all the ships we have, in a fight right there, i was imps, i swear i had like 20 ssd 40+ isd2 60ish vsd2, 100's of lancers a dstar, and it was filled with defenders, we made a pack not to run, so i didnt need interdicts. he had like 60-100 bulwarks, 200 or so gunships and like 150 fighter transports, in the end i think the whole battle was a 4 hour affair, it was fun. he won, but he lost all his capital ships, well all but 3 fighter carriers, he took out all my fighters first, and he also took down most of my anti-fighter suport, but my dstar was still blowing away his ships, well with my fleet taking out more, i think in the end he had like 400 squads of fighters, x/b wing mix taking out my ships, and not even a ssd can take the beating of 800 torps at once